The emergency occurred around 3 in the afternoon when the official’s relative was traveling in a National Protection Unit (UNP) car along with a minor and two members of his security scheme, whose The objective was to reach the city of Cali by land.
In the middle of the journey, in the jurisdiction of Valle del Cauca, Four subjects who were on two motorcycles gave instructions to the driver of the car to stop. However, he ignored the requests and the criminals reacted violently with firearms.
This was reported by the commander of Section No. 4 of the National Police, General Jorge Urquijo: “They fired repeatedly, hitting the rear of the vehicle four times. Thanks to the maneuver of the officials, they manage to evade this action and ask for help in the town of Robles.”
There they were treated by the authorities, who alerted their commanders about what had happened and a helicopter was enabled to transport Sigifredo Márquez to Cali, where he is out of danger. From that moment, investigations also began to be carried out to clarify what happened.
“One of the hypotheses is the actions of the FARC dissidents, the Central General Staff, specifically, the Jaime Martínez structure. “We are in the investigation process to argue based on the evidentiary material that we are collecting in the area,” added the high command of the institution.
There is special attention on the aliases of Ostin and Brainer, since all the clues would indicate that they were behind the attack: “This is attributed to them because, apparently, they would have participated in the incident,” said Urquijo. WEEK was able to establish that Ostin is the leader of militias in the sector and Brainer is his subordinate.
